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... illusions, because that is the only way to bring you to truth. He will force you to open your eyes; he will not sing a lullaby to help you to go to sleep. He will shout from the house tops to wake you up. He will shock you, he will hit you. Just the other day Pradeepa came to see me. She was crying - naturally, I had shocked her tremendously. She would not have ever dreamed that one day, out of nowhere, I...
... would just hit her exactly on the head with a hammer. And she was also disturbed because she has been a cause of creating nausea in me - she feels for me, she loves me, as you all love me. She was crying for all these reasons. But I have to tell you, and her in particular, that you should feel grateful whenever I hit you hard, because I will hit you hard only when you are worthy of it. I will not hit...
... just anybody, I will hit only when somebody is really growing. The more you will be growing the more demands will be made on you. I have not told everybody to drop non-vegetarian food, but I have told Pradeepa in a very shocking way to drop it. Her consciousness is growing; now this has become a hindrance. People who are not soaring high - they can carry as much of a burden as they like; but those...
..., 'You were right. I have learned a lot. You did well to throw my painting out.' Avanindranath hugged him and said, 'I was waiting. I am getting old, and I was getting frightened whether you would be coming back or not. I am happy. Your painting was beautiful, but I see much more potential in you.' Whenever I see a much greater potential in you I will hit you hard, because that is the only reason you...
... are here with me and I am here with you. I have to provoke you to your very depths so that all that is dormant in you can start rising, can start soaring high. And you don't know your potential... I know. So whenever I make demands feel grateful. You will be surprised to know that in Zen monasteries whenever the Master hits somebody's head with his staff, the person who is hit bows down seven times...
... and touches the Master's feet to thank him. And disciples wait for that moment when they will be hit, for that blissful moment to come when the Master will take so much trouble as to hit their head with his staff. They dream about it, they pray, they hope that some day that blissful moment will come. Remember, this is an alchemical academy. You are not here just to be entertained but to be...
... in gratitude? In fact you are deeply in anger. If you come across them you will kill them, you will murder them because these are the people who have forced you into a controlled life; these are the people who didn't allow you to live as you would have liked to live; these are the people, Moses and Mohammed, who have given you commandments about how to live. You cannot forgive them. Your gratitude...
... needs no control, a disciplined mind is absolutely free. An undisciplined mind needs control because an undisciplined mind feels that without control there is danger. An undisciplined mind cannot trust itself, hence the control. For example: If you don't control yourself you may kill somebody - in anger, in rage you can be a murderer. You need control, because you are afraid of yourselves. A man of...
... question: Question 4: YOU SAID THAT ONLY MAN IS VIOLENT AND KILLS FOR SPORT AND THAT ANIMALS KILL FOR FOOD. YET I HAVE WITNESSED DOGS TEARING APART A FOX FOR SPORT; A FOX KILLING NINE CHICKENS AND EATING ONLY ONE - NOT TO MENTION THE RED ANTS VICIOUSLY ATTACKING US DURING MEDITATION. DOES THIS NOT PUT ANIMALS IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS MAN? You must have come across some very highly evolved animals who are...
... search of your food and you never feel that you are vicious, why should they be thought as vicious? Nobody is vicious. Even the germs that can kill you, they too are not vicious, they are in search of their food. Even the germs that create a cancer in your body that will certainly kill you, that no medicine can help - even they are not vicious, they are not machiavellian, they are not politicians. They...
..., all formulas are dead, all formulas create a structure around you and that structure becomes by and by your imprisonment. I don't give you any formula, not even the Jesus formula. I want you to be understanding, alert, aware. Let that be your only source of action. Sometimes maybe it is good to offer the other cheek, but only sometimes. It is relative. Sometimes it is better to hit hard, but that...
... too sometimes, and one can never predict. You have to watch the whole situation of a certain moment and live with total response. If you carry a formula you will not be free. I have heard an anecdote. A Christian saint who used to follow Jesus' sayings word for word, literally, was hit hard by an enemy on one cheek. Of course he showed him the other cheek because that's how Jesus said it had to be...
... done. The man hit him again hard on the other cheek. The so-called saint was waiting for this to bring about a conversion in the man. All Christians think that when you offer the other cheek, the other man will be so enlightened by your compassion, love, brotherly feeling, he will be so encompassed by your beautiful gesture of offering the other cheek that he will simply fall at your feet and become...
... a disciple. But that doesn't happen in life, life is not so easy. The man, seeing that this saint was offering the other cheek, hit him hard, harder than at first. Now the saint was a little in doubt about what to do because Jesus doesn't say: Then again offer the other cheek. Now the formula comes to an end, so he was a little in doubt. He tried to decide what to do, then jumped on the enemy. The...
..., which is not as easy to remove as the dust in the clothes. Because the body is external the water required to cleanse it is available outside; since the mind and its dust are within we have to acquire some cleaner within. Every moment the dust keeps gathering within, even if you do nothing but sit. A man may indulge in no activity, yet his body requires a bath each day. The mind is never inactive, but...
... understand and confront this duality within you, you will never be able to seek Him. Your state at present is like that of the man who builds a house during the day and destroys it at night. He repeats the same process day after day. Or, you might say, he lays a brick with one hand and removes it with the other; or he may employ two workers, one to lay the bricks and the other to remove them. When will his...
... coveting. You can kill only if you have no feeling of love towards the person you kill. You can cheat, you can deceive, you can commit all other sins - only when love is absent within you. Sins are born only in the non-presence of love. Just as an unlighted house attracts thieves, robbers, snakes and scorpions - and spiders weave webs within it and bats make it their home - but when light is brought in...
... destruction: a man tears down a house in order to build a new one. This is not destroying but a part of constructing. When you break for the sake of breaking, it becomes a sin. If you have a small child whom you love very much, you sometimes give him a whack or two - because of your love you have beaten him for his good, to improve him. You hit him because you care. If you did not care for him you would not...
... have bothered what he did and what he didn't do; you would have been indifferent. But you love him enough not to allow him to go on doing what he pleases. You will stop him from going near fire; you will even hit him if he does not listen. This hitting is not sinful, but creative. You want to make something of him. When you hit an opponent, it is the same hand; the slap is the same, the energy is the...
... you suffer because I do not give you my blessings. No blessings can remove your suffering. If somebody's blessings help to improve your understanding and sow seeds of love within you, that is more than enough. Sins can be washed away only with love, and suffering can end only when you give happiness to others. Nanak says: If the mind is filled with sin, only the love for His name can purify it. When...
... for evil is momentary. If you can bring yourself to desist at that moment, you will realize how futile your action would have been. Restrain a murderer for a moment, and he cannot kill. If a man is about to jump into a river to drown himself, interrupt him for a short while and he will no longer try to kill himself. Certain acts are possible only in certain moments. Within you are moments of both...
... hit. But then, he himself became afraid, afraid that he could kill the girl. He became so afraid that he escaped from the group and he came to me and complained. He said, "This type of group should not be allowed in the ashram. Someday, somebody may murder somebody." He's right, because the murderer in him is there. His fear is right; it is right about himself. He can be a murderer. In...
... that will not help you. It will be just controlling the disease within you, holding it in. It will not make you healthy. It may even make you more unhealthy. You can see - a person who gets easily angry is never very dangerous. You can be certain that he will never commit any murder. He will never accumulate enough anger to become a murderer. Every day he catharts. Easily, with any provocation, he...
.... It becomes a pooled-up thing. So the Japanese, the Chinese, they have lived with much control, discipline. They are dangerous. Once they attack you they will not leave you alive. Ordinarily, they will not attack you, but once they attack you, you can be certain that they will kill you. Now this man who had been deeply in aikido was in the encounter group, and Teertha must have been insisting for...
... dangerous. He can hit you at such a delicate point, with such force, that even death can occur with a pillow. That is the whole training - one takes years - a small hit, but at the very delicate points. The Japanese have worked out where to hit very slightly, and the person is gone. Just with a single finger they can defeat the enemy. They have found the delicate points to hit, and how to hit, and when to...
... my eyes. You are so afraid and shrunken and closed, you have not allowed my love to enter you; otherwise you would have thought, 'This idea of chopping is a great idea. A man of such love and such understanding and such realization is not going to kill me. And if he wants to kill me, it is better to be killed by such a man than by an unknown, dark death.'" The king said, "I will come...
... and dissolve into you." The whole city was aware: "This man is a little crazy. Mohammedans do prayer five times a day, but this man seems to be doing prayer almost the whole day. And the prayer is not much, just, 'Open the door.'" One day Rabiya was passing, and she hit on Hassan's head. She said, "You idiot! The door is open but you are so engaged in your prayer that you cannot...
... see it. Stop praying and enter, the door is open!" The hit... A silent moment... He looked, and certainly the door was open. The same mystic became a great master. He used to tell this story again and again, saying, "A single hit from Rabiya brought me home. But my God, that woman is really strong! She stopped my mind, my prayer and then I laughed and thanked her, 'Your grace is great...
... ideas and they will think they are their ideas - but they are from the Communist Party, or some other party which is in power. And then it will be difficult to remove that party from power, because it has infiltrated the minds of people continuously, for five years through all the movies, television, radio with only one thing, "This is the right party. This is my party." It can have even...
... done to prepare more efficiently for war, to kill more, to destroy more. It seems man is insane. Everywhere you can see his insanity, and if it were only a few people who were insane, it would be easy to do something for them, but if the whole humanity is functioning in an insane way, then a tremendous effort is needed to stop this idiotic behavior. The people who are responsible for the basic...
... unconscious as possible, and they start showing their true colors. A man who has never been angry is shouting and is angry and throwing things and is ready to kill anybody. You could have never thought that this gentleman can do such things. And he did it continuously for three or four days - that means it is lying down there in his unconscious, as his chief characteristic. Once it was discovered, then...
... thousands of flowers. Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, MANY TIMES I FIND MYSELF WITH TEARS OF GRATITUDE FLOODING MY HEART, AND WHEN I START TO WHISPER THANKS, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, INEVITABLY I BECOME DUMB, NOT KNOWING IF I BOW TO YOU, BELOVED FRIEND, OR THIS WHOLE EXISTENCE, WHICH GIVES US THE BLESSING OF HAVING YOU AMONG US. I READ SOMEWHERE THAT THE BUDDHA SAID, "IF YOU MEET ME ON THE WAY, KILL ME...
... nothingness, only pure silence - no image, because all images are imagination. He is not saying that you have to kill Gautam Buddha. He is saying you have to kill the image which is bound to come to you because you love Gautam Buddha. And he is a great master in the sense that he will not even exclude himself. Everybody has to be thrown away: Krishna, and Rama and Mahavira - whoever comes in the way has to...
.... Just try it once, and you will be surprised. It looks ordinarily that this is not gratefulness, but you don't know. There is a bigger gratitude just waiting. You will be grateful to the master, that he even suggested to you that you shouldn't let him become a barrier, that his work is not to become a barrier between you and reality. His work is not to be between you and reality, he has to remove...
... millions of people who will never go to the university. The media, in other words, is a university reaching to people's homes rather than bringing people to the university. And it has a great responsibility in such moments of change. It should not live on sensationalism. It should not exploit people's ugly desires. They read about rape, they read about murder, they read about crime, and it is a wellknown...
... psychological fact: while people are reading these things they somehow enjoy it. They also want to murder someone but they cannot. Reading about the murders, they become identified with the murderer. IF SOMEONE KILLS SOMEONE, THEN SHOULD IT BE REPORTED IN THE MEDIA OR NOT? My feeling is: if we want to change the human mind - and it is an absolute necessity - all that is evil should be ignored, because once...
... you report it, it is magnified a millionfold. A small evil - somebody kills someone - reaches to millions of people; and every day they read that somebody is being killed, somebody is raped. Slowly, slowly, it becomes clear to them that rape and murder and suicide are normal. And this idea of their being normal is dangerous. They can rape. If everybody is raping, if everybody is murdering, then what...
... I enjoyed doing it; that is my reward - not success or failure. Of course while I am here something is bound to happen - I don't know what. WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO REMOVE POVERTY FROM INDIA? It is very easy. The easiest thing in India is to remove poverty - which the politicians and the leaders are making the biggest problem. The first thing is that India should not think in terms of becoming a big...
...." I said, "Your God is omnipotent, all-powerful, omniscient; he can see past, present, future; he is omnipresent, everywhere present. Cannot he remove a small pill, or change the quality of the pill? If he can make man out of mud, cannot he change the pill into mud? Such a great god, and the pill defeats him? You are talking nonsense. If God wants children to be there, then no birth control...
... establishments cannot be at ease with him. So they begin to kill individuality as soon as a child is born. Before he is seven they kill his individuality completely. If by change they are not successful in doing this, then only a person becomes his own individual self. But this is rare. Every type of social institution is a means to kill the individual and convert him into a machine. All our universities are...
... factories to kill the spontaneous - to kill the spark, to kill the spirit and change man into a machine. Then the society feels at ease with him. He can be relied upon. He knows what he can do, what he will do. He can be predicted. Man becomes predictable as soon as he be-comes a machine. We can predict a husband, a wife, a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist. We know who they are and how they will react. We...
... Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 36 Previous Folio / Sanhedrin Directory / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 36a If a festival, which is superseded by a private offering,1 is not abrogated for an execution;2 then a private offering, which supersedes the festival, is surely not to be suspended by an execution? Now, on the...
..., 19a). — This is still part of Raba's reasoning. The premise being correct, the deduction is likewise correct, viz., that an execution cannot supersede a private offering. How then can the verse, Thou shalt take him from mine altar, be reconciled with this conclusion? For, as shown above, if Abaye's reasoning be accepted, execution does not suspend even private offerings: to what then can from...
... Babylonian Talmud: Baba Kamma 27 Previous Folio / Baba Kamma Directory / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Baba Kamma Folio 27a is guilty of murder: R. Judah b. Bathyra, however says: If consecutively the last is liable, for he was the immediate cause of the death.1 In the case where an ox meanwhile appeared and caught the [falling] child...
...] burnt, there is liability.15 Raba said: Both of the two [latter cases] have been dealt with in Mishnah. Regarding the case 'on a neighbour's heart' we learnt:16 If one man held another fast down in fire or in water, so that it was impossible for him to emerge and death resulted, he is guilty [of murder]. If, however, he pushed him into fire or into water, and it was yet possible for him to...
... below so as to escape the worst effects of his falling, but without intention to degrade. Deut. XXV, 11. Ibid. Since the person upon whose heart the live coal had been placed was able to remove it. Lit., 'garment'. [In this case, the failure of the owner to remove the coal could be explained as due to his belief that he could claim compensation.] Sanh. 76b. Infra p. 531. This does not imply release...
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